Eric Drechsel
edrex.bsky.social
Eric Drechsel
@edrex.bsky.social
🥘experimental-gastronomy 🚴cyclewild alum ✍️indieweb 🧑‍💻 indfrastructure 🎇distributed applications
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July 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
For more privacy-preserving Android app recommendations, see divestos.org/pages/recomm...

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Recommended Apps - DivestOS Mobile
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December 14, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Wondering what privacy-preserving browser to use?
My recommendation is librewolf.net on desktop. For Android, have a look at divestos.org/pages/browsers and make up your own mind.
LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
librewolf.net
December 13, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Reposted by Eric Drechsel
Stop what you're doing right now and read this. @ryanjhaas.bsky.social reports that a new hell has reached Oregon - an entire newspaper that is run by AI, poaching the identities of real journalists to look like it has a staff, and repurposing the work of reporters (including yours truly).
Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists.

What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers.

My latest:
AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...
www.opb.org
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